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Author Anonymous
Source Title Life of Alcuin
Language Latin

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Go to Monumenta Germaniae historica inde ab anno Christi quingentesimo usque ad annum millesimum et quingentesimum edidit Societas Aperiendis Fontibus Rerum Germanicarum Medii Aevi. Scriptorum tomi XV. Pars I. Arndt, Wilhelmus (Wilhelm) Vita Alcuini Hannover 1887 184-97

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1 Event Anon.VitAlcuini  Prol.184.3-6, 185.4-10 Anonymous 176 was writing about Alcuin 1 on the orders of Anonymous 177.
2 Event Anon.VitAlcuini  Prol.184.4-6, 185.5-6 Anonymous 177 ordered Anonymous 176 to write a Life of Alcuin 1
3 Event Anon.VitAlcuini  Prol.184.4-5, 185.8 Sigulf 2 had recounted the life of Alcuin 1 to Anonymous 176.
4 Event Anon.VitAlcuini  Prol.185.10 Adalbert 2 died
5 Event Anon.VitAlcuini  1 When Alcuin 1 had been weaned, he was handed over to the church.
6 Event Anon.VitAlcuini  2 When Alcuin 1 was still very small, during daylight he often attended church with others during the canonical hours, but rarely at night-time.
7 Event Anon.VitAlcuini  2 Anonymous 178 asked Anonymous 179 for someone to share his cell at night.
8 Event Anon.VitAlcuini  2 On account of his preference for Virgil over the Psalms, Alcuin 1 had a vision of foul spirits.
9 Event Anon.VitAlcuini  4 Ecgberht 7 taught Anonymi 510.
10 Event Anon.VitAlcuini  4 Bede 1 was handed over by his parents (Anonymi 512) to monastic discipline.
11 Event Anon.VitAlcuini  4 Bede 1 died aged ninety.
12 Event Anon.VitAlcuini  4 Gregory 1 died in the year 127 before AD 731.
13 Event Anon.VitAlcuini  4 Bede 1 wrote in books what he had learnt over the previous thirty years.
14 Event Anon.VitAlcuini  4 They say that Bede 1 spent a further thirty years correcting what he had written.
15 Event Anon.VitAlcuini  4 They say that Bede 1 spent a further thirty years also teaching pupils (Anonymi 513) outstandingly in the study of all the liberal arts.
16 Event Anon.VitAlcuini  4 From daylight until about the sixth and often the ninth hour, Ecgberht 7 would teach his pupils (Anonymi 510).
17 Event Anon.VitAlcuini  5 Ecgberht 7 used pray twice a day.
18 Event Anon.VitAlcuini  5 After celebrating compline none of his pupils (Anonymi 510) ever dared go to bed without Ecgberht 7's blessing on his head.
19 Event Anon.VitAlcuini  5 Ecgberht 7 loved his pupils (Anonymi 510), especially Alcuin 1.
20 Event Anon.VitAlcuini  6 Ecgberht 7 died on 19 November.
21 Event Anon.VitAlcuini  7 Alcuin 1 was reading John 13:23 - 18:1 before Æthelberht 8 and Anonymi 514 when he had a vision.
22 Event Anon.VitAlcuini  7 Alcuin 1 had a vision of the precincts encircled by blood.
23 Event Anon.VitAlcuini  8 Later on the same day Alcuin 1 lost the hair on his head.
24 Event Anon.VitAlcuini  8 Æthelberht 8 prophesied to Alcuin 1 what he would do after Æthelberht 8 died.
25 Event Anon.VitAlcuini  8 Æthelberht 8 blessed Alcuin 1 with the blessings of his fathers mentioned above and commended him to Jesus Christ.
26 Event Anon.VitAlcuini  8 Æthelberht 8 died on 8 November.
27 Event Anon.VitAlcuini  7 Æthelberht 8 told Alcuin 1 to tell what he had seen to only a single person, who after his death would be forbidden from keeping a secret about Alcuin 1.
28 Event Anon.VitAlcuini  8 Alcuin 1 taught many in Britain and not a few afterwards in Francia (Anonymi 515).
29 Event Anon.VitAlcuini  8 At that time Sigulf 2 associated with Alcuin 1 and stayed with him.
30 Event Anon.VitAlcuini  8 When a boy Sigulf 2 had sought out 'these regions' with his uncle, Autbert 1.
31 Event Anon.VitAlcuini  8 Sigulf 2 had been led by Autbert 1 to Rome in order to learn ecclesiastical practice.
32 Event Anon.VitAlcuini  8 Sigulf 2 had been directed to Metz for the sake of learning to chant.
33 Event Anon.VitAlcuini  8 Sigulf 2 sent his uncle [sc. Autbert 1] to the Lord.
34 Event Anon.VitAlcuini  8 Sigulf 2 stayed for some time in Metz in great penury but with much fruitfulness.
35 Event Anon.VitAlcuini  8 Sigulf 2 had returned to his fatherland.
36 Event Anon.VitAlcuini  9 On the orders of Eanbald 1 to seek the pallium for him from the pope (Anonymous 181), Alcuin 1 went to Rome and then returned having received it.
37 Event Anon.VitAlcuini  9 Alcuin 1 encountered Charlemagne 1 in Parma.
38 Event Anon.VitAlcuini  9 Charlemagne 1 begged Alcuin 1 to return to Francia to him after completing his mission.
39 Event Anon.VitAlcuini  9 Alcuin 1 came to Charlemagne 1.
40 Event Anon.VitAlcuini  9 Charlemagne 1 gave two monasteria to Alcuin 1.
41 Event Anon.VitAlcuini  9 Alcuin 1 requested of Charlemagne 1 that he might return to his fatherland, to which the latter eventually consented.
42 Event Anon.VitAlcuini  9 Charlemagne 1 strongly requested Alcuin 1 that he should return to him a second time in order to stay with him.
43 Event Anon.VitAlcuini  9 Alcuin 1 returned to Charlemagne 1 for a second time.
44 Event Anon.VitAlcuini  9 Alcuin 1 was put in charge of the monasterium of St Martin's of Tours.
45 Event Anon.VitAlcuini  9 Charlemagne 1 had been directed to Alcuin 1 by his master (Anonymous 182).
46 Event Anon.VitAlcuini  10 Charlemagne 1 convened a synod of bishops (Anonymi 517) to debate the Adoptionist heresy. The heresy was refuted.
47 Event Anon.VitAlcuini  10 Alcuin 1 wrote letters to Felix 4 and Elipant 1 and received letters from them concerning the Adoptionist heresy.
48 Event Anon.VitAlcuini  11 Alcuin 1 indicated that he wished to retire from the secular world.
49 Event Anon.VitAlcuini  11 Charlemagne 1 most willingly divided the secular burdens of Alcuin 1 amongst his pupils (Anonymi 518) as Alcuin 1 had requested.
50 Event Anon.VitAlcuini  11 In the end the life of Alcuin 1 at Tours was not inferior to the monastic life.
51 Event Anon.VitAlcuini  11 Alcuin 1 poured forth most secret prayer daily.
52 Event Anon.VitAlcuini  11 Those of Alcuin 1's pupils who showed friendship towards him were enumerated. They were careful that they did not do anything reprehensible before him because they feared that their deeds could not be
53 Event Anon.VitAlcuini  12 Raganard 1 had a dreadful vision while asleep.
54 Event Anon.VitAlcuini  12 Alcuin 1 had prophesied about the fate of Anonymous 185.
55 Event Anon.VitAlcuini  12 Alcuin 1 predicted that Osulf 1 would die neither in that area nor where he was born.
56 Event Anon.VitAlcuini  12 He [sc. Osulf 1] died in Lombardy.
57 Event Anon.VitAlcuini  12-13 On a visit to Raganard 1 Alcuin 1 criticized his behaviour, which had been revealed to him by God.
58 Event Anon.VitAlcuini  12 Alcuin 1 had instructed Raganard 1 to drink wine.
59 Event Anon.VitAlcuini  14 Alcuin 1 very often prophesied about the arrival of others (Anonymi 520 and 31).
60 Event Anon.VitAlcuini  14 Benedict 4 was joined to Alcuin 1 in ties of intimacy above all the monks.
61 Event Anon.VitAlcuini  14 Benedict 4 used to visit Alcuin 1.
62 Event Anon.VitAlcuini  14 Alcuin 1 sent a messenger (Anonymous 186) to meet Benedict 4 when the latter was making an unannounced visit to him.
63 Event Anon.VitAlcuini  14 Benedict 4 asked Alcuin 1 to reveal to him the contents of Alcuin 1's special prayer that he prayed for himself.
64 Event Anon.VitAlcuini  15 Charlemagne 1 came with his sons, Charles 2, Pippin 3 and Louis 1, to Alcuin 1, who prophesied about Charlemagne 1's successor.
65 Event Anon.VitAlcuini  15 Charlemagne 1 predicted who his successor would be. This has now happened.
66 Event Anon.VitAlcuini  15 Alcuin 1 prophesied to Sigulf 2 that Francia would rejoice to have Louis 1 as the successor to the father [sc. Charlemagne 1].
67 Event Anon.VitAlcuini  15 Alcuin 1 instructed Charlemagne 1 in the liberal arts and the Divine scriptures.
68 Event Anon.VitAlcuini  16 Alcuin 1 had read the ancient philosophers and Virgil as a young man.
69 Event Anon.VitAlcuini  16 Against the instruction of Alcuin 1, Sigulf 2 secretly made Adalbert 2 and Aldric 1 read Virgil.
70 Event Anon.VitAlcuini  16 Alcuin 1 reproved Sigulf 2 for reading Virgil.
71 Event Anon.VitAlcuini  17 Alcuin 1 ordered that wine be given to the brothers of Cormery (Anonymi 525)
72 Event Anon.VitAlcuini  17 Some of bearers of the wine (Anonymi 527) had mixed sand with water in the wine vats, as was subsequently proved.
73 Event Anon.VitAlcuini  18 Aigulf 1 came to Tours to visit Alcuin 1.
74 Event Anon.VitAlcuini  18 Certain brothers from Tours (Anonymi 528) expressed hostility towards Aigulf 1 and Alcuin 1 because of their ethnic identity.
75 Event Anon.VitAlcuini  19 A fire in the sacristy at St Martin's was staunched when Alcuin 1 prayed at the tomb of St Martin.
76 Event Anon.VitAlcuini  19 At the request of Vetulus [i.e., Sigulf 2], Alcuin 1 prayed at the tomb of St Martin.
77 Event Anon.VitAlcuini  20 Quite often many infirm persons (Anonymi 532) coming to Alcuin 1, having received in faith his blessing, regained bodily health.
78 Event Anon.VitAlcuini  20 A blind man (Anonymous 189) regained his sight when he washed his eyes with water Alcuin 1 had used to wash his face and eyes.
79 Event Anon.VitAlcuini  21 Alcuin 1 composed various works at the request of various people.
80 Event Anon.VitAlcuini  22 Alcuin 1 when drowsy one night had a vision of the Devil.
81 Event Anon.VitAlcuini  23 Alcuin 1 celebrated mass with diligence and reverence.
82 Event Anon.VitAlcuini  23 Anonymi 533 were careful lest anything reprehensible be seen in their behaviour by Alcuin 1.
83 Event Anon.VitAlcuini  24 Alcuin 1 asked that he die on the Day of Pentecost.
84 Event Anon.VitAlcuini  25 Alcuin 1 washed himself of his sins with many groans.
85 Event Anon.VitAlcuini  25-26 Alcuin 1 died on 19 May 604.
86 Event Anon.VitAlcuini  26 Joseph 1 and others saw a light over St Martin's.
87 Event Anon.VitAlcuini  27 Anonymous 190 had a vision of Alcuin 1 in heaven.
88 Event Anon.VitAlcuini  27 Anonymous 191 visited Anonymous 190 in Italy and subsequently returned to Tours.
89 Event Anon.VitAlcuini  28 Alcuin 1 was buried within the basilica of St Martin. Above his tomb was placed on the wall on a bronze plate the inscription composed by Alcuin 1 himself.
90 Event Anon.VitAlcuini  28 Alcuin 1 died in peace on 19 May.
91 Event Anon.VitAlcuini  28 Sigulf 2 healed his headache by combing his hair with the comb belonging to Alcuin 1.
92 Event Anon.VitAlcuini  28 Eangist 1 was healed of toothache by touching the comb of Alcuin 1 with his teeth.